Cook instead chose to release the film straight to video, a format that was at the time unregulated, but this plan also ran into trouble when several hundred copies were impounded by James Anderton of the Greater Manchester Police, bankrupting the small company behind the release.[citation needed]Derek and Clive Get the Horn was finally granted an uncut 18 certificate in 1993[1] and was released as a sell-through video by PolyGram.